We went to see 9
Sep. 12th, 2009 11:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsOmaha and I went to see 9, which is best described as post-apocalyptic quasi-mystic steampunk. The visuals are stunning but the plot is only so-so.
Not a spoiler, but if we discuss it, there will be: It's very obvious that, ten minutes before the end of the film, the studio wimped out and decided not to go with the original ending. The sudden shift in action, the loss of the story where the hero made a decision American audiences would have loathed, is very obvious, one that Omaha and I both noticed and were both disappointed by. It made a very big story into a very little one. Focus groups probably like the new one better, right?
Still, it's an amazing story up to that point, and even then it's tolerable. But it doesn't seem to have been the story. I'd like to ask Shane Acker if he was happy with what Pamela Pettler did to his original idea.
Not a spoiler, but if we discuss it, there will be: It's very obvious that, ten minutes before the end of the film, the studio wimped out and decided not to go with the original ending. The sudden shift in action, the loss of the story where the hero made a decision American audiences would have loathed, is very obvious, one that Omaha and I both noticed and were both disappointed by. It made a very big story into a very little one. Focus groups probably like the new one better, right?
Still, it's an amazing story up to that point, and even then it's tolerable. But it doesn't seem to have been the story. I'd like to ask Shane Acker if he was happy with what Pamela Pettler did to his original idea.
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Date: 2009-09-14 02:03 pm (UTC)From your description, if I were to watch this film (I really don't like movies), I'd probably see the very same mile-wide gaping plot hole. Your analysis sounds spot-on.